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[polar acorn]

Which PlayerCam instance do you want the variable cam to hold?

[hexed terrace]

right mouse click the method/ var/ type -> find references

[tawny bolt]

the sensX and sensY

[polar acorn]

what?

[tawny bolt]

sensitivity

[polar acorn]

I don't understand how that answers my question

[tawny bolt]

basicly i want my game to stop responding to my mouse when i pause

i tried making sens 0 but it gives me error

[polar acorn]

I'm asking you, which PlayerCam do you want the variable cam to hold a reference to

[amber spruce]

in unity or visual studio

[hexed terrace]

Take a wild guess, it's kind of obvious

[visual hedge]

not so good approach. You could use your update function where the code actually responds to click and make some if statement about when they actually should respond. So basically if you pause, then don't respond. Easy as that?

for this you will have to use either some sort of bool like public bool isPaused = false/true; or maybe some statemachine with state like PAUSED: or maybe as you pause the game, you invoke something so it shuts the input down

[visual hedge]

but you carry on with clarifying what for instance are they intending to hold 😉 much love

[polar acorn]

I'm answering their actual problem

There's a null reference because they don't understand how to reference an object

[visual hedge]

they described their actual problem in the screenshot I just sent )

also they told why they get null reference error. And I told them it's because they are approaching the problem from bad side 🙂 But well... how about we are both right?

It's just me not "?" your messages

[cosmic dagger]

this was their question that started the whole thing . . .
#💻┃code-beginner message

[visual hedge]

but they changed their problem and I got a screenshot of it 😄

maybe they understood what they are trying to do while discussing?

and had no idea before? Altho Ill go read that initial message )

Okay lemme translate that: they wanted to make new instance of their whatever float for the reason: they wanna pause and for that they wanna use another instance of the value for the state where game is paused.
I knwo you guys are all damn smart here. So smart, that you simply don't get what actual beginners and newbies are asking about. Because they themselves have no idea

[hexed terrace]

All they (currently) need to do is assign their cam var..
Then move onto the next issue

[polar acorn]

They want to change a float in cam. In order to do that they need to reference cam. I am asking leading questions to try to get them to understand what referencing even means while you're posting some word salad about state machines for some reason?

[cosmic dagger]

that was just their end goal, but the original (current) problem is stopping them from doing that . . .

[visual hedge]

And I don't intend to mean that anyone isn't smart. Actually smart. That's sometimes is a problem. Experienced guys can really have 0 idea what newbie is talking about. I experienced it myself many times.

[fickle plume]

@visual hedge Why are you continuing with this? The issue was already clarified to you.

[visual hedge]

Okay I will shut up, sir. Have a nice evening though )

[deft glade]

hey can someone help me out with a issue im having?\

[summer stump]

https://dontasktoask.com/

No idea if we can until you ask 😃

[deft glade]

so im following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQMytORBmM and im having trouble with the gameObject step around 20:35

[rich adder]

what is "having trouble"

[deft glade]

i cant get a second option to show up in the code component

[visual hedge]

if it's a private "option" then use [SerializeField] on top of it

[rich adder]

which option are you referring to ?

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "option" and "second option"?

[deft glade]

a second script

[hexed terrace]

do what he does in the tutorial 🤷‍♂️

[polar acorn]

What do you mean "second option"?

[deft glade]

public GameObject pipe; he types that and it just works

[wintry quarry]

Yes it will work for you too

[polar acorn]

Okay, and what does yours do

[wintry quarry]

unless you messed something up

[deft glade]

its not tho

[hexed terrace]

well, he saves it too

[rich adder]

maybe compile errors

[wintry quarry]

You messed something up then

Check for errors

[hexed terrace]

he doesn't show, or say, to save the changes to your code

[deft glade]

ive saved them

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[hexed terrace]

ok, so .. let's stop guessing.. and you SHOW us what you've done

[deft glade]

it worked thank you

how?

[hexed terrace]

if it works, there's no need to carry on..

[visual hedge]

After you save the script, you wait for unity to compile. After it will update the inspector. Guys in tutorials may have a powerful pc that allows to compile in split of a second, especially if that's simple flappy bird. While your pc may take longer. idk

[sinful helm]

Why does unity tell me my scripts are missing, even though they are in assets, I got my code to work i think, theres no more errors with the code. But unity is telling me it cant find my scripts

[wintry quarry]

You have a GameObject that has an invalid script attached

find it and remove it

[sinful helm]

Thank you

[polar acorn]

Do you have any compile errors and does the file name match the class name

[sinful helm]

No compile errors, but it is the file name thanks, sorry for asking dumb questions

[tawny bolt]

i got it to work i had to reference from object i was just picking up script with null properties i got fixed now

[snow girder]

hello

im trying to get a model to follow my cameras x rotation but it seems to be spinning forever

unless the cameras x is 0

the more closer it gets to zero the slower it is

[wintry quarry]

well for one you should not multiply mouse inpuit by deltaTime

and your last line is the culprit

the transform.Rotate. Get rid of that. It makes no sense.

It's unclear what p2 is but Rotate is cumulative, not absolute.

[snow girder]

p2 is a reference to the player gameobject

but what else can i use to make the player rotate around the camera

[wintry quarry]

wdym rotate around the camera

is this a first person script?

SET the rotation, don't add to it.,

[snow girder]

well alright then

rotation.x = transform.rotation.x

does that work

[wintry quarry]

no

those are quaternions

don't mess with the individual components of them

[snow girder]

well what else could i do

[wintry quarry]

It's hard to say exactly what to do here without knowing:

• The camera style (FPS? TPS)
• Which object is which

[snow girder]

what is tps

[wintry quarry]

set it properly like you're doing for the camera

third person

[snow girder]

fps then

[sand frost]

@wintry quarry do you recommend any coding lessons after finishing the beginner coding and intermediate coding lessons from unity learn

[wintry quarry]

the tytpical thing is:

player.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
cam.localRotation = Quaernion.Euler(xRotation, 0, 0);``` assuming the camera is a child of the player

[wintry quarry]

I recommend some pure C# https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[sand frost]

Instead of unity C#?

Isn't .net software

[snow girder]

i assume yrotation is just x rotation's complete opposite?

[sand frost]

@snow girder hey I'm also 2008

[snow girder]

that's awesome

same birthdate

[sand frost]

Birthyear

[snow girder]

same thing

[sand frost]

Ok then

Gotta go

[wintry quarry]

No it's whatever your player's y axis rotation should be

[wintry quarry]

What? All of this is software.

[snow girder]

so just p2.transform.rotation.y?

[wintry quarry]

no

what

MouseY

[snow girder]

if im correct y is up and down

oh

[wintry quarry]

you are not correct

[snow girder]

y is left and right?

[wintry quarry]

well actually

sorry

[snow girder]

damn when was that

[wintry quarry]

MoujseX would be for the y rotation

[wintry quarry]

y is rotation AROUND the y axis

x is rotation AROUND the x axis

[snow girder]

oh

interesting i never knew it worked like that

[wintry quarry]

moving your mouse side to side should rotate you on the y axis

and vice versa

[snow girder]

neat

well there's also another issue

for some reason the model would just

be like a few inches above the collider

wait hold on let me make the collider more visible

the pink thing is the collider

and the player is above that fsr

[frigid sequoia]

Aaaaah... just move it?

[snow girder]

it didn't happen before

[snow girder]

it only happens in the play mode

and even if i do try it snaps back to this

if it was this simple why would i bother 😭

[covert flower]

is it possible to change find a script on an object that is disabled

and change an int on it

[indigo bramble]

can't you enable it, take the variable and then disable it again?

[frigid sequoia]

What is snaping it back?

[teal viper]

Sure. But maybe reference it ahead of time is better.

[snow girder]

maybe the character controller script?

but i don't know the issue

[snow girder]

this

[frigid sequoia]

Any of these seem to move the collider itself. Just the GameObject; isn't it?

[indigo bramble]

anything connected to the collider?

[snow girder]

well its a gameobject with a collider containing the model

is that stupid?

[indigo bramble]

you can put the collider on a seperate child game object

[snow girder]

sure

[frigid sequoia]

I would have the collider in the parent GameObject separate from the model

But shouldn't matter

[covert flower]

gonna attemp that

[frigid sequoia]

I mean move the collider within the GameObject, like offset it so it stands where you want it to be

[snow girder]

i have placed it on the mesh

and it did 0

as in nothing

[indigo bramble]

usually I put the collider and model seperate from one another and both children to an empty

that way you can move the collider around

[snow girder]

i doubt it will do anything but alright

[indigo bramble]

show us the collider component and hierarchy

[snow girder]

yellow is collider

did nothing

also im trying to say that it worked before without any changes

so i think its an issue with code

but idk what

[deft quarry]

Hey all, im new to unity! Can someone please attempt to help me fix my camera jitter? It might not even be my camera jittering, but when I move around objects, they jitter and I dont know if its my camera or something else. I've had no luck with finding a solution and frankly I'm at a loss as to where to go next. I've also already tried using cinemachine but I still come up short, and nothing else has worked so far.

PlayerMovement Script : https://gdl.space/kizodiqeri.cpp
Camera Script : https://gdl.space/esadejigib.cpp

More info : https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1226261265110929429

[snow girder]

mayhaps late update shenanigans idk

try normal update

[prime cobalt]

Does anyone know how I can make an enemy using navmesh avoid a dynamically moving area around a player that doesn't have a physical obstacle? My enemies find a random location to move to a certain distance from the player but they just walk right past the player to reach it.

[snow girder]

just like follow one of those enemy sight tutorials on youtube and break the function if the enemy spots one?

[teal viper]

Jittering typically occurs when some movement is not updated at the same rate as the rendering. Physics being one of such things. That's why there's an interpolation option on the rb. Do you have it enabled?

[snow girder]

so anyone know why...

[indigo bramble]

nothing in your code seems to be even touching the collider

[snow girder]

it's moving a gameobject that has a collider?

i swear it didn't happen like two moments before

and it suddenly just happened

[teal viper]

I've no clue whatsoever what the issue is and that screenshot doesn't make it any clearer. Maybe try recording a video and provide a proper textual explanation

[snow girder]

basically the pink thing is a collider and the model is floating above the collider

[prime cobalt]

they might not walk directly into the player that way but I don't think they'll stay in a circle around them. They would just probably end up walking next to the player.

[snow girder]

imean have you tried tho

[teal viper]

Is it above? Not behind? It's really not clear from that screenshot

[snow girder]

does it matter? i mean the only issue that it's above

sorry if that was rude

[snow girder]

woah okay

it works without an animator?

like it doesn't float above collider if there's no animator?

[snow girder]

does that make any more sense?

my code doesn't touch the animator either

yet somehow the animation makes it float above the collider

[teal viper]

It matters very much. One is horizontal offset. The other is vertical. Which one is it?

If it's due to the animator, it's probably root motion. Try disabling it.

Assuming it's not just an animation issue

[snow girder]

root motion is disabled...

[teal viper]

Then it's an issue with your animation

[snow girder]

hold up let me get a screen shot of the animator

and animations

[snow girder]

i guess mixamo can't be trusted anymore

[deft quarry]

I was using normal update for a while and neither that nor LateUpdate did anything

[snow girder]

trying instead of making the camera follow, inside the player object

[deft quarry]

Yeah, all my rigid body's are set to interpolate

[teal viper]

Then make sure the interpolation is now broken

Record a video demonstrating the jittering

[snow girder]

he did in his thread

[snow girder]

i don't get this

the animations are perfectly fine

why is it doing that

[teal viper]

Are these all the animations?

[snow girder]

all of them

[teal viper]

And all of them are from mixamo?

[snow girder]

yep

i can even give you the exact ones i used

[teal viper]

Does it jitter when you're moving without rotating?

Ideally,comment out the rotation code entirely for testing.

[deft quarry]

Yeah, moving without rotating causes them to jitter. Rotating without moving is completely fine

[woeful quest]

can someone help me this isn't loading and it just says checking for updates

[teal viper]

Okay. Can you put the animations in different states and try them one by one? Or even just an animator without animations

[snow girder]

have you installed any assets

[snow girder]

sure

[snow girder]

without the blendtree thingy it works

[woeful quest]

Yes a photon thingy

[snow girder]

mad respect for attempting a multiplayer game anyways try switching the packages thing maybe

lmfao why he do this with no animations

[woeful quest]

I'm watching this tutorial and i'm at 16:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcsX0uCNi4

idk the package manager just wont load

I also just started using Unity like 1 hour ago

@snow girder

[snow girder]

have you logged in :trollface:

[woeful quest]

yes

[snow girder]

what version are you on

[woeful quest]

im on the same Unity account on the application and website

[snow girder]

lateast?

[woeful quest]

How do I check that?

Oh wait

I know

1 second

[snow girder]

great

try this version maybe

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of your blend tree settings again

[snow girder]

after i just deleted it?

[snow girder]

damn

[woeful quest]

what?

[teal viper]

I mean, if you don't need it, then problem solved?

[snow girder]

no i was replying to the other guy

[snow girder]

no i meant like deleted it to try

[woeful quest]

oh ok lol

[snow girder]

anyways try an older version

[teal viper]

And it worked. So we've got a clue from that.

[woeful quest]

Will I still have my full project

and how do I switch to an older version?

[snow girder]

well yeah

[woeful quest]

Ok

[woeful quest]

Ok

done that!

[snow girder]

try it

[woeful quest]

I click on installs and what?

[snow girder]

well i'll add another blend tree under your guidance then

[snow girder]

im kidna stupid it was the wrong way

click here and somewhere it should say

[woeful quest]

Wait what

Sorry if im acting dumb I just started using Unity 3 or 4 hours ago

[teal viper]

I suggest going through the beginner pathways on unity !learn if that's the case

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[woeful quest]

I see now

I found it

[teal viper]

We're not gonna teach you the basics of working with unity here

[snow girder]

right also try posting this issue not in code beginner?

i don't think its a code issue

[woeful quest]

Do I need to close the editor first before switching?

[snow girder]

yes

[woeful quest]

ok

I will save and do that

[snow girder]

right so i added it and now it floats again

[woeful quest]

it ain't there

[snow girder]

grrr

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the blend tree settings. Also, did you try all the animations in separate states?

[woeful quest]

the version you showed me in this screenshot you sent me

[snow girder]

sure

[woeful quest]

ok

[woeful quest]

Do you just want to call and I can screenshare

Don't need to talk btw just share screens maybe?

[rich adder]

none of his is code related

[snow girder]

im guessing like half of this i don't think i can help any more

[teal viper]

Make a default transition into a state with the idle animation

[woeful quest]

Ok

[snow girder]

oh

my bad

sorry bro

[woeful quest]

1 more thing would this version work maybe?

or this one?

[snow girder]

maybe the second one? idk

[woeful quest]

ok

I will try it

[snow girder]

god damn i should gotten some animation practice

[woeful quest]

Thanks!

[snow girder]

i don't know jack about this 😭

[snow girder]

no problem?

okay maybe you are right

cause when i tried without blend tree

the anims

the guy still floats

[opal scaffold]

how dose one make it so that a sprite moves when i hit wasd cuz i dont see a premade scrpit for that

[snow girder]

look it up :trollface:

[teal viper]

Just drag the idle anim clip into the animation controller outside the blend tree and configure a transition.
And yeah, should probably go through the beginner pathways too.

[snow girder]

well i did and it still floats

[teal viper]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[snow girder]

so maybe it is the anims

but i don't get it though

[teal viper]

There's no premade script

[snow girder]

the animations i took off of mixamo

shouldn't it work?

[teal viper]

Good. Take a screenshot of the scene view

[teal viper]

It should if setup correctly

[snow girder]

well i could if i knew the issue!!! god this program is tough

[teal viper]

With the hierarchy and the inspector visible and the character selected.

[snow girder]

sorry sorry

[opal scaffold]

is bolt free

[snow girder]

yeah?

bro just look it up it doesn't take that much effort

[opal scaffold]

oh shit fr?

[snow girder]

😭

[opal scaffold]

nah fuck the pathways im useing bolt

i know how bluebrints work

[snow girder]

well good luck to you i suppose

[rich adder]

visual scripting 🤢

[teal viper]

Ok. Why does it have offset on the y axis?

Set it to 0

[snow girder]

been racking my head over this for like an hour before this

gets set to 1 again???

[teal viper]

Expand you collider settings

[snow girder]

what i could do is manually go in the anims using blender and set them 0

[teal viper]

No. Forget about it for now.

[woeful quest]

How do I play my Unity game in VR? cause I got a Quest 3 and a link cable

[snow girder]

still not a code question man 😭

[teal viper]

Center y should be set to 1

[snow girder]

but im pretty sure its a plugin

[snow girder]

sure

[woeful quest]

Ok. Im new here sorry

[snow girder]

oh my god

i am actually so stupid

im so sorry for making you go through this

[teal viper]

!learn
It's not something a beginner should do out of the bat.

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[snow girder]

thank you so much dude 🙏 sorry for making you go through this cause of my stupidity

mad respect

[woeful quest]

yay!

[brazen canyon]

Hey guys
I need help a bit
I have a shop, I used SO to load the items in it.
If I click buy something, a different SO will be added to a list of scriptable object for the Inventory.
How do I drag the images, texts and stuff into the element of the list ?

[woeful quest]

lol I selected the wrong project

it's okay

[whole idol]

Left is Youtube, right is my screen. So, we does mine not have this mouseWorldCoordinates keyword ? it throws a red squiggly line underneath if i try just to write it in anyways.

[summer stump]

This is not a code question

[whole idol]

oh never mind I just realized I had to get the Vector3 mouseWorldCoordinates variable higher up on the line above my current variable

because the compiler has no idea what that mouseWorldCoordinate is if I go by that order

makes sense

[late cairn]

Hello! 👋

Does anyone know a way to get the position of a RectTransform as if it were a direct child of the canvas? I know I can just change the parent and then get the data and change it back but that seems pretty inefficient.

Thanks for your time!

[summer stump]

as if it were a child
What does that mean? Like the offset position (localPosition)?

[late cairn]

Yes, exactly. Like in the hierarchy I can drag it to be a child of the canvas. As it stands it is a child of a child of a child of the canvas

[summer stump]

GrandparentPosition - grandchildPosition
I think that should work

[late cairn]

Is it that simple? I don't have to factor in intermediate positions and anchor

[summer stump]

That gets a vector that equals the distance and direction (synonymous with vector haha) from the grandparent to the grandchild (which is essentially all a local position id)

My worry is that it won't work well with recttransform

[snow girder]

hey uh sorry to bother you again but how do you make animations play on a parameter of the animation?

[late cairn]

Thanks very much!

[summer stump]

Well, I could be wrong on it haha

[late cairn]

😛 I am going to fiddle with it now, I'll let you know if it works out!

Either way, thanks for your time ❤️

[teal viper]

By using the parameters in the transition conditions. I recommend going over the manual of animation system

[snow girder]

whats the function for it i meant

animator. ?

[sand frost]

Isn't unity game development

You again haha

[cosmic dagger]

it's software used for game development. that's not the same . . .

[sand frost]

I thought I said that

Youre smarter though I'll listen

[teal viper]

Check the animator documentation

[snow girder]

right

[late cairn]

I ended up getting a value that was normalized between -9 and 9 on the x axis, and -5 and 5 on the y. Uncertain how these values were being calculated I didn't want to risk using them in case they were not consistent for different use cases. I'm sticking with just changing the parent, doing my calculations and switching it back. So far the performance hit is negligible. Thanks again!

[summer stump]

Fair enough, thanks for letting me know!

[wintry quarry]

Video games are a type of software

[sand frost]

Ah ok

But it's different though right

Console.Writeline is like Debug.Log or something

[wintry quarry]

It's the same language

[teal viper]

Once you know C# good enough, you would know how to use the unity api

[sand frost]

Ah

[whole idol]

using Unity.Netcode;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

public class PlayerController : NetworkBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float speed = 3f;
    private Camera _mainCamera;
    private Vector3 _mouseInput;
    private void Initialize()
    {
        _mainCamera = Camera.main;
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        if (!Application.isPlaying) return;

        //movement
        Vector2 mousePositionScreen = Input.mousePosition;
        _mainCamera.x = Input.mousePosition.x;
        _mainCamera.y = Input.mousePosition.y;
        _mainCamera.z = Input.mousePosition.z;
        Vector3 mouseWorldCoordinates = _mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(_mouseInput);
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, mouseWorldCoordinates, Time.deltaTime * speed);
        //rotation
        if (mouseWorldCoordinates != transform.position)
        {
            Vector3 targetDirection = mouseWorldCoordinates - transform.position;
            transform.up = targetDirection;
        }

    }   
}

[summer stump]

One is part of the console namespace and the other part of the Debug class provided by Unity

Yes, you would use then in different places. But that is what an API is

[sand frost]

I was looking up my problems on the unity forums and I saw praetor blue answering it

Few months ago

[summer stump]

Camera doesn't have an x 🤷‍♂️
You were thinking of the camera's position. Which is not accessed like that

[wintry quarry]

mainCamera.x < this makes no sense. There's nothing called x on Camera

[whole idol]

oh i meant to write_mouseInput

[wintry quarry]

Why do:

        _mouseInput.x = Input.mousePosition.x;
        _mouseInput.y = Input.mousePosition.y;
        _mouseInput.z = Input.mousePosition.z;```
When you can just do
```cs
        _mouseInput = Input.mousePosition;```??

[whole idol]

👍

using Unity.Netcode;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

public class PlayerController : NetworkBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float speed = 3f;
    private Camera _mainCamera;
    private Vector3 _mouseInput;
    private void Initialize()
    {
        _mainCamera = Camera.main;
    }

    public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
    {
        base.OnNetworkSpawn();
        Initialize();
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        if (!Application.isPlaying) return;

        //movement
        Vector2 mousePositionScreen = Input.mousePosition;
        _mouseInput = Input.mousePosition;
        Vector3 mouseWorldCoordinates = _mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(_mouseInput);
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, mouseWorldCoordinates, Time.deltaTime * speed);
        //rotation
        if (mouseWorldCoordinates != transform.position)
        {
            Vector3 targetDirection = mouseWorldCoordinates - transform.position;
            transform.up = targetDirection;
        }

    }   
}

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PlayerController.Update () (at Assets/_Scripts/PlayerController.cs:21)

[teal viper]

If you're doing networking, you should be able to fix a little null reference error.

Or rather, maybe you shouldn't be doing networking on your current level.

Read the error. It tells you what line exactly is the problem. Check all the reference type variables on that line to find which one is being null and make sure that it's assigned.

[honest vault]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[whole idol]

what should i be doing in my current level?

[teal viper]

Single player games. Most importantly, follow the beginner pathways on unity !learn and go over some C# courses or the manual.

[eternal falcon]

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[whole idol]

oh wow thats actually a good course much better than those I was struggling with on youtube lol

first time Im actually clicking that link

[edgy forge]

I'm trying to understand how yield and async operations work.

        //Check the download size
        AsyncOperationHandle<long> getDownloadSize1 = Addressables.GetDownloadSizeAsync("Base");
        yield return getDownloadSize1;
        if (getDownloadSize1.Result > 0) bundles.Add("Base");```
my assumption is that the code execution waits at yield until `GetDownloadSizeAsync` has finished. is that correct?

that's not what it's doing for me, how is this meant to work? my downloads don't wait until they're finished and it continues on and fails before the assets are downloaded

[teal viper]

If that's not in a coroutine that's not a valid code.

In fact, it's probably not valid anyway.

Check the AsyncOperationHandle documentation

Ah, okay, if it is in a coroutine it is valid.

Is it?

[timber tide]

Not too sure about GetDownloadSizeAsync, but usually anything that says Async and requires yielding will stop yielding when the operation is complete

or good way to test it is to not yield and see if your program locks up haha

[edgy forge]

what is yielding exactly?

is it a synonym for "wait"?

what I'm seeing right now is it spits out 0% downloaded then tries to instantiate the asset I told it to acquire dependencies for

[polar acorn]

It has a meaning in normal C# but in Coroutine terms it means "Wait until the given condition is true before resuming". The default action is "next frame" which would be yield return null. Once the wait condition is up, it resumes right where it left off with the next line. So a yield return new WaitForSeconds(3) would pick up on the next line 3 seconds later.

[edgy forge]

is the "wait" context inside the coroutine function, or in the thing calling it?

[timber tide]

in this case it basically is doing a little work, exiting the code, then picking off where it was last frame. Well, there's some internal operations going on here too done by unity too, but it is checking every frame if it is done.

[edgy forge]

I only have one coroutine so I guess that's why it's all failing

[timber tide]

otherwise your program would become unresponsive

[edgy forge]

I think I need to redesign my loader completely :/

[teal viper]

Maybe share the whole function that this code belongs to...

[edgy forge]

I think I know how to visualise this now though, thank you

it's not a function, it's multiple classes and scenes

like I said, redesign

[teal viper]

In C# any code like that needs to be in a function/method. It can't be outside.

[edgy forge]

that's not what I meant....

[teal viper]

Then share the method

[edgy forge]

no

the code we're talking about is in different places and it's not worth sharing

as we're finished here you don't need to interrogate it

[teal viper]

Surely the code that you shared earlier is in one specific place. Can you not share more of it..?

[edgy forge]

it's... not.

no

I'm going back to improve it and reorganise it

[teal viper]

Aight, you do you then...

[edgy forge]

thanks for the help @timber tide

[wraith hornet]

how can i make my game start ? my player run using update so i want to it start running only if i click "play" btn. I only know setting time step to 0

do u guys know better methods ?

[eternal needle]

have a main menu scene, and a scene where the game actually plays. then load the scene when they press play

[wraith hornet]

what if i use only 1 scene?

i just hide the menu canvas

[eternal needle]

Why limit yourself to this, it is easily solved with 2 scenes

[wraith hornet]

hmm. thanks, u are right

[abstract finch]

Is it a good idea to create a class that specifically handles the death of enemies? Since enemies dying usually turns off their update loops and logic, or is it better just use use a state machine?

[crimson sinew]

if only enemies are dying it might make sense to just create an abstract base enemy class that handles the updates stopping and death and whatnot

and then all the real enemy classes do whatever they do on top of the code that handles death and health and whatever

[abstract finch]

i see thanks

[timber tide]

Yes, have an EnemyManager that queues and dequeues enemies from the pool

[abstract finch]

at the moment im just using an interface called IEnemy and when they spawn and die they get removed and added to list

[timber tide]

public class EnemyManager
{
  public void AddStatMod(StatModSO mod) { }
  public void RemoveStatMod(StatModSO mod) { }
  private void RequestEnemy(EnemySO enemySO) { }
  public void ReturnEnemyToPool(Enemy enemy) { }
}```

some ideas what your manager would do

And on your enemy something like:

public class Enemy
{
    public void ReturnEnemyToPool()
    {
        GameManager.Instance.EnemyManager.ReturnEnemyToPool(this);
        //Remove StatMods and such (could do this in the manager too)
    }
}```

[eternal needle]

How many enemies do you think you'll have at a time? the game targetted for pc?
You might be able to just get away with destroying an enemy and instantiating new ones if you dont plan on having absurd amounts. Pooling is nice if you have performance concerns but then you also need to worry about things like resetting all logic associated to that instance of an enemy. It can be quite tedious

[hoary gull]

https://hastebin.com/share/irapomejim.csharp @rich adder

[hoary gull]

This is the script that mentions the error

[rich adder]

line 31 doesn't match

[hoary gull]

But there is nothing there...

[rich adder]

did you change the script since error?

clear errors and run again, just to get fresh error line

[hoary gull]

No

[hoary gull]

I did it, I get the same...

[rich adder]

line 31 and 32 don't match anything here

select error, screenshot the full stack in console window

[hoary gull]

Although I'm pretty sleepy right now, it's 2am where I live, do you mind if I add you to talk to you after this?

[rich adder]

You may post this question tomorrow, there will be many people around to help
(btw check that you have items in array of questions or no copies with empty)

[livid path]

Hi. Is there any chance that I can draw IMGUI outside of MonoBehaviour?

[ruby python]

Hi all,

Would someone be willing to take a quick look at this and see where my mistake is please? I think it's something to do with where I'm setting isFiring = false, but I'm a little lost. At the moment, the missile Swarm only fires once (correct number of missiles spawn etc). There should be a delay before the player can fire the next swarm (3 seconds currently), but it's behaving as though the isFiring bool is never set to false 😕

https://hastebin.com/share/quxexiyice.csharp

[timber tide]

isFiring gets set to true after the first missile is fired

er, false

[ruby python]

I just debugged the bool and it seems to be working fine (gets set back to false when it should), so I'm at a bit of a loss tbh as to what's actually happening when I press Space the second time.

[timber tide]

Ah, ok sorry reading the logic wrong here. Thinking you invoke the coroutine in the forloop

so, you set shooting to true, shoot a missile and pause some amount of times, then you pause another time after the forloop and set shooting to false.

[ruby python]

Shooting = true, fire x amount of missiles, delay for 3 seconds, set shooting = false is what supposed to be happening. (Can only fire again once shooting = false, and enemy count = grid cellcount.

[timber tide]

if you haven't, start using the vs debugger and run through your code step by step

[fossil drum]

Did you figure it out already?
My guess is that the problem is you start a coroutine in a coroutine.

[ruby python]

I'm getting there, think I've found the problem, just tweaking to test/make sure. 🙂

[timber tide]

I was going to suggest just yield StartCoroutine from the first

but I don't think it makes a difference as it seems fine as is to me

[fossil drum]

Well I'm unsure what happens without yielding the other coroutine.
The first coroutine ends, so what happens with the other one? Does it end prematurely?
I think the yielding is better, or just put the code at the end of the first coroutine. Not sure why it's nested at all.

[ruby python]

Yeah I figured it out, turns out it was nothing to do with the code I posted. lol. It was how I was handling the enemyList. All fixed now and works as intended 🙂

Thank you though 🙂

[ebon quartz]

can someone tell why is my code wrong?

[queen adder]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class SpawnManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject[] animalPrefabs;
    private float spawnRangeX = 20;
    private float spawnPosZ = 20;
    private float startDelay = 2;
    private float spawnInterval = 1.5f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        InvokeRepeating("SpawnRandomAnimal", startDelay, spawnInterval);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {

    void SpawnRandomAnimal()
        {
            int animalIndex = Random.Range(0, animalPrefabs.Length);
            Vector3 spawnPos = new Vector3(Random.Range(-spawnRangeX, spawnRangeX), 0, spawnPosZ);

            Instantiate(animalPrefabs[animalIndex], spawnPos, animalPrefabs[animalIndex].transform.rotation);
        }
    }
}```

Every time I try to invoke the SpawnRandomAnimal it just repeats this in the console and idk what I am doing.

[ruby python]

You don't need to get the transform component.

And you're only setting x and y positions to a Vector3, you're missing the z

[ebon quartz]

i am missing the z, because it is unity 2d*

[terse gazelle]

Don´t forget to remove the dot between GetComponent and < as well

[ruby python]

a Vector3 needs 3 floats, x, y, z

[queen adder]

That might be the issue.

[ebon quartz]

thank you, it is now fixed

[queen adder]

Partybear.

One more thing.

Instead of using Vector3, try using Vector2.

Vector2 uses only X and Y

[ebon quartz]

i dont know, im just doing what the tutorial says so yeah

[terse gazelle]

don't think that will work - position only takes in a Vector3 iirc. Might be better off doing ``new Vector3(coordenada_x_camera, transform.position.y, 0f);`

[queen adder]

Dang.

[queen adder]

also i need help here

[ebon quartz]

it did work, its to make the sky follow the camera

[ruby python]

I think the camera does need a Vector3.z component even if it's a 2D game?

Because the camera still exists in 3D space.

[ebon quartz]

yup

[ruby python]

Could be wrong tought tbh, I don't do 2D. lol.

[ebon quartz]

you are right

one more thing, why does my platform look weird?

[ruby python]

Yeah, so just add ((camera)).position.z to your Vector3 and I think that'll be fine.

Looks like you may have weird 'edge' pixels on your sprite?

[ebon quartz]

it isnt suppossed to be like that

[ruby python]

Photoshop has a habit on some images of kind've adding transparency on the very edge pixels.

[queen adder]

[ebon quartz]

i didnt make these assets, the tutorial guy told us to do it like this

and it looks good in the tutorial guy

[ruby python]

Okay, well it looks like you're 'stretching' your sprites, so their edges are going to be 'mushed' up.

[ebon quartz]

ohhh ok

how do i fix that?

[queen adder]

Don't use tutorials from anybody except Dani, Brackeys and Code Monkey. Cause you finish that tutorial and you get a ton of errors and then there is no tutorial to fix it.

That is my advice.

[ebon quartz]

uhhh im using a tutorial made by a teacher from my college so thats why i used that , and it is in my language so i can understand that better.

[queen adder]

dang.

[ruby python]

Keep the dimensions of the sprites the same as the tutorial. While you're learning don't change anything at all, do the tutorial 1-1, best advice I can give.

[queen adder]

can sumone help pls

everyone gone now :(

fixed it

[ebon quartz]

ok the issue was because i painted two tile sprites in the same spot, thats why

[queen adder]

i accidently put the code in update

[ruby python]

Ah fair enough.

[ruby python]

Literally just about to reply. lol.

[queen adder]

srry-

[ruby python]

Nah sokay, cool that you figured it out for yourself 🙂

[flint rose]

I finally created my fist game it was not that hard except for the fact that I kept forgetting to build it 4 times so I had to start over😅

[burnt vapor]

Configure your !ide before asking for help in general

[eternal falcon]

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[maiden parcel]

hey there, i got a code problem and i dont know why is having this error

it says that is in that line

[slender nymph]

either your AudioSource variable is null or it has no clip assigned to it

[maiden parcel]

i have assigned

[slender nymph]

oh and you also need to pay attention to the warnings in your IDE because that Play call is irrelevant to the if statement

[slender nymph]

either you reassign it in the code or you have more than one component where one of them does not have it assigned

[visual hedge]

why is the semicolon there?

[maiden parcel]

what do you mean with that?

[slender nymph]

this: #💻┃code-beginner message

[visual hedge]

how come you have semicolon in this line?

if (collision.gameObject);

what is it doing in there?

semicolon means " ; "

[maiden parcel]

i wanna if an object colission, the audio reproduces

[long jacinth]

Guys pls help me this is how its supposed to work vs how it works in build

[maiden parcel]

is no need in that case?

[visual hedge]

yes, but why is semicolon in there?

[slender nymph]

please learn how c# works. there are beginner courses pinned in this channel to help you get started

[slender nymph]

check the player !logs for error messages. and also don't expect us to know what is going on without relevant code

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[maiden parcel]

i dont know

[visual hedge]

if (collision.gameObject)
  {
  Dano.Play();
  }

And please don't get me wrong, but I am strongly against language specific symbols. I guess none would like to work with a code if methods would be called in let's say arabic or chinese.

[maiden parcel]

sorry

[visual hedge]

How savage would that be?

  void 做那件事()
  {
  }

?

[swift elbow]

i think he meant to ping someone else

[visual hedge]

nah, don't be sorry. It's just kind of friendly suggestion to not use language specific symbols

[swift elbow]

wait nvm oops

[visual hedge]

Nah it's addressed to Sasaki person 🙂

[swift elbow]

but why is that semicolon there?

how much coding knowledge do you have?

[maiden parcel]

i know, im just used to use the symbols and i forgot to no use them

[visual hedge]

they don't know why. Because common knowledge is that every line of code should end with semicolon I think or jsut a typo 🙂

[swift elbow]

if it was a typo its easily spottable

[maiden parcel]

none, we are just doing a school proyect and they dont teach us

i mean, we are studyng animation and 3D, and they want we to program a game with 0 knowledge of coding

[visual hedge]

oh... okay... anyways, the semicolon, the first one, should not be there

[swift elbow]

😅 i would really recommend at least a couple hours of watching tutorials and practice because thats a very big mistake

[visual hedge]

other than that I am not sure if the collision.gameObject part is correct

[swift elbow]

that is the worst schooling lesson ive ever heard, you should consider unenrolling

[maiden parcel]

we have 4-5 proyects per week, we have very short time for fisishing them

[visual hedge]

post the problem and people will decide if they can

[swift elbow]

dont ask just to ask, post your question in detail

[maiden parcel]

they say that in our grade is not necesary but then they ask for a game coded by us

[slender nymph]

then do so

[visual hedge]

so removing semicolon fixes the errors?

[swift elbow]

what class is this for? and this is for university i assume?

[maiden parcel]

they only teached us about the lenguage (sush a what is void, if loop...)

nothing more

[visual hedge]

there's no if loop

[swift elbow]

very poor introduction from what i'm understanding

[visual hedge]

theres for each and for loop

[swift elbow]

i think she means basic topics + typo

[maiden parcel]

no :c

[visual hedge]

what is your code now?

[maiden parcel]

its a profesional cycle

[slender nymph]

look at that, you finally showed your code and proved i was right all along! you are reassigning your Dano variable in Start

[visual hedge]

there is built in Unity function: OnTriggerEnter()

[maiden parcel]

i know, but all my game is working with colliders

[visual hedge]

yours won't work like you intend it if you don't use the built in unity method

[maiden parcel]

i mean colision

[visual hedge]

yes, so you should use the built in collision detection method

[swift elbow]

that is what OnTriggerEnter is for

a trigger is a type of collision

[maiden parcel]

oh

[slender nymph]

wtf are you on about? OnCollisionEnter is a built in "collision detection method". and they've shown that it is working considering the runtime exception is being thrown from within there

[visual hedge]

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
    }
``` this is the method... and it will work for 3d object.

[slender nymph]

the only things wrong with their code are the reassignment of Dano in Start since they assigned it in the inspector. and the if statement inside of OnCollisionEnter is pointless since it's just nullchecking the colliding object which can never be null

[visual hedge]

well... you might be right. And I might be wrong. But where exactly am I wrong by suggesting to use OnTriggerEnter? 🙂

that was next thing I was going to point out

[slender nymph]

well considering that won't work with their current setup since OnCollisionEnter is working just fine, the entire suggestion is wrong

[visual hedge]

yeah, entire. Starting with suggesting to remove the semicolon 🙂

[maiden parcel]

im lost right know

[swift elbow]

its ok dont take it personally 😅

[slender nymph]

remove the if statement in OnCollisionEnter and the line in Start and everything should work just fine

ignore almost everything that TylerWin suggested

[visual hedge]

I am getting used to people in this server slowly 😄

one more pro than another. Love to correct others rather than involve themselves and help people 🙂

[slender nymph]

except i was the one helping with their issue

[visual hedge]

said 0 words about semicolon ) A+ help

[slender nymph]

just because i didn't specifically say the word semicolon (which by the way was entirely unrelated to their issue and did not change the logic in any way) does not mean i didn't point out that mistake. i pointed it out before you
#💻┃code-beginner message

[visual hedge]

get a cookie 😉

Have a nice day

[slender nymph]

if you are going to help people, at least focus on the actual issue before derailing the entire conversation for another mistake and then suggesting that they should be using OnTriggerEnter instead of OnCollisionEnter when their OnCollisionEnter method is already working just fine

[swift elbow]

honestly sounds like an xy problem, why would anyone want an audio to play ANYTIME a gamobj collides with something 🤷‍♂️

prob dont know tag useages

[slender nymph]

that's not what an XY Problem is

[maiden parcel]

you mean like this?

[slender nymph]

yes. your previous if statement was just checking that collision.gameObject was not null, but it's not possible for it to be null there
though you do probably want some other logic there such as checking a tag or for a component if you don't want the sound to play every time it collides

[queen adder]

Hey, I'm trying to make a cutscene scene consisting of 5 frames that change every 4 seconds. Currently my plan is to import the frames with an array, iterate through, and modify the z position of the first frame, then the second frame and so on to have them transition until the timer reaches zero and the scene is loaded. What would be the best way to achieve this intended behavior, since it seems like I can't modify the z-position of the image?

[swift elbow]

you know what i intended, close enough

[swift elbow]

you have to create a vector var first, then modify that

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

[maiden parcel]

it have to play the sound each time it colides, the player have 3 lifes in total, so every time he lost one life he will play the hurt sound

[slender nymph]

cool then that should work just fine

unless of course this is on the player and it can collide with things like the ground or environment without getting hurt

[visual hedge]

@slender nymph you are totally right. This is exactly what was causing that exception error.
Still... don't you think it was useful to ask them (what I did) why is the semicolon in there and also suggest for them to use proper unity method for collision detection?
I mean you are right to pick up on me, no questions asked, but I mean...

[slender nymph]

again, i did point out the issue with the semicolon. #💻┃code-beginner message

[maiden parcel]

it still having the error 😅

[slender nymph]

did you remove the line from the Start method?

[maiden parcel]

i got it like this

i dont know if that what you mean

[slender nymph]

yes, make sure you have saved and unity recompiled. and make sure that the AudioSource is still assigned in the inspector

if it is and you still receive the error then you have a copy of the component in the scene without it assigned

[maiden parcel]

it works

thanks you all 🥺

[visual hedge]

yaay 🙂

[maiden parcel]

sorry for inconvenience, im really lost at this

[swift elbow]

no worries, we're always here to help 😁

[visual hedge]

yeah... true. And I was slowly getting to the point where I was about to ask what if(collision.gameObject) is trying to achieve in there... actually right when you pinged me I was busy typing something like "not sure what if (collision.gameObject) is trying to do there" 🙂

[queen adder]

Thx

[final kestrel]

I have a prefab with some serialized stuff in it. Do I have to everytime assign the things whenever I drag and drop the prefab into my scene?

[swift elbow]

if they are scene objects, then yes. If they are prefab references, then no

[slender nymph]

if you want to assign scene objects to those fields, then yeah you'll need to drag the relevant objects in. if you want assets to be assigned then then you can drag the references into the prefab and they will stay assigned when you drag the object into the scene

[final kestrel]

All right thanks.

[burnt mantle]

Hi guys how to set position to localPosition when setting parent, like i have an object and i want to stick it to an other object

[slender nymph]

how to set position to localPosition when setting parent
could you elaborate on what exactly you mean by this

[burnt mantle]

i want to set my object position in the same position when he hit the player like if you get hit by an arrow it stick at the position, because when i setParent my object position is set to 0

[slender nymph]

when you call SetParent pass true for the worldPositionStays

[burnt mantle]

its not working the object is too low in y axis

[slender nymph]

if it's position is changing at all when doing that then something else is affecting the position and you would need to show code and how the objects are set up

[burnt mantle]

i'm using navMesh agent btw

[slender nymph]

unrelated to the issue, but you should be using the CompareTag method rather than string equality to check an object's tag

and please show how these objects are set up and if you could, a video (or at least some screenshots) of the issue

[burnt mantle]

wdym by set up ?

[slender nymph]

like the inspectors for these objects. you know, how they are set up in the scene

[burnt mantle]

the scale can be a problem ? because my parent is scale to 0.5

[hexed terrace]

if you just do what's asked, you'll get your problem solved quicker

[astral cedar]

the last line of code at 46, cs private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision) {}, doesnt turn cs OnCollisionEnter2D() as blue but as yellow

[swift elbow]

!code paste this properly please

[eternal falcon]

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[astral cedar]

i tried

[slender nymph]

it's the same color as your other unity messages. if vs code is configured then it's fine

[swift elbow]

ah sorry i just realized youre talking about color, nvm then

[spiral narwhal]

Do you guys name variables specific to your game, or try to abstract the names away as much as possible?
For example, in my game, I have a variable fuelPower, which essentially is just mana. Should I name it mana instead in case the name changes in the future?

[swift elbow]

making variables specific to you is just good practice (its what I do so its easier to remember what it is)

if you encounter name changes, change it in your script at the same time as in your scene

(so you dont lose track)

[hexed terrace]

why would you use mana, if mana isn't a thing in your game? You use names that make sense to what you're developing

[slender nymph]

your variables should have meaningful names that immediately convey what their purpose is. if you have a Jetpack class with a mana variable, that doesn't immediately convey that it is the fuel available to the Jetpack unless you use mana as fuel in other places as well and the name makes sense in context

[swift elbow]

wizard high tech space invaders, duh 🙄

[hexed terrace]

But then mana would be a thing in the game 😄

[cosmic dagger]

you shouldn't expect to change your variable names. use meaningful or descriptive names based on their intent . . .

[spiral narwhal]

It's a card game in a sci-fi setting. So players DO have literal mana to spend on cards each turn :D It's just that it is represented as "fuel power" for the setting

And maybe that name will change, not because of the variable itself, but because of the lore, setting, etc.

[tall delta]

if it's a generic class/lib that you plan to reuse, then try and keep the names generic too.
IE: I have a Health script I've reused many times, but in the game, 'health' might be time, energy, mana etc, etc.

other than that I find that keeping it consistent is the best way to keep your 'mental map' of the code up to date.
so in your case if you call it mana in the script, then have a FuelPowerUIComponent, and a PowerTracker component etc, etc, then you end up with 4-5 different names for the same concept, and that can become confusing quick.

[swift elbow]

then call it fuel power. i encountered a similar issue in the past and never changed my var names so it made it difficult for future recollection

[spiral narwhal]

Okay gotcha guys, thanks

[astral cedar]

the tutorial im watching says that OnCollisionEnter2D should NOT be yellow, also my vs code is configured

[slender nymph]

is the tutorial using visual studio rather than vs code? because visual studio will highligh unity messages as blue. i don't think vs code does, but if it is configured then it is already working correctly

[hexed terrace]

It depends on your settings, and which IDE you use, by default it's yellow in VSC

I'm gonna go ahead and say that the person making that tutorial doesn't know what they're talking about

[astral cedar]

im probably stupid but idk what are the differences

im gonna send a screenshot and tell me if is VS studio or not, sorry for that

[slender nymph]

all that really matters here is that vs code is configured

[wanton canyon]

OK so putting being held within an if statement did help, there's just a weird thing where if you pick up a slime while looking down it is sideways (being held works by becoming a temporary child of the player, going into a grab slot. and looking at the player main camera)

[slender nymph]

yes, this is visual studio not vs code. in visual studio unity messages like Awake, Update, and OnCollisionEnter are highlighted in blue when configured correctly

[astral cedar]

ok thank you

[hexed terrace]

as long as when you type "oncol" intellisens pops up with suggested completes.. don't worry about the colour

[astral cedar]

it does so im fine

[timber tide]

reset the child rotation to the quaternion identity then try it

the goal is to try to get the child to rotate only on the y

[timber tide]

but it looks like when childing and doing lookrotation it's introducing some roll into the equation

[wanton canyon]

yeah I wish there was a way to make its roll set but the only thing I came across was freezing rigidbody rotation and that wont work

[timber tide]

I dealt with a similar situation quite a while ago and kinda just played with a bunch of ideas until I got it

angleaxis can help too, as you can manually set the rotation per axis, but it's a bit of work

[timber tide]

try resetting the child rotation before childing too for the heck of it

really odd it is introducing roll

lookrotation by default will rotate using y axis using world up

[wanton canyon]

yeah that's there to get the slime to look at ya

[wanton canyon]

Could be something else somewhere in the code maybe? I didnt know what all would be relevant and I feel weird uploading lots of code lol but there's this

[timber tide]

here's a better idea. When you pick up the object, reset the position and rotation to zero/identity, now offset the postion of the child by an amount of units on the local z

this should now offset the object directly in front of you with similar rotations, now by using lookrotation, or angleaxis on the y, rotate it towards the character

from there, play around with your offsets, you can probably offset it a bit more to the x+ axis local to keep it on the side a bit like you're doing too, and then using lookrotation then

[timber tide]

Ah, sorry image didn't load for some reason, but yeah you're doing similar to what I said, but try introducing some units on the z+ axis if you arent

[scarlet skiff]

https://gdl.space/giwunetere.cs Why does the gravity scale set to 0?

im no good at math but this shouldnt be 0

[swift elbow]

i think its because you are using int values

[wintry quarry]

integer division

5 / 10 is 0 with a remainder of 5

[scarlet skiff]

so 10 should be 10f?

[hexed terrace]

yep

[wintry quarry]

Also if you want the random number to be a float the inputs need to be floats too

right now you'll only get 4 5 or 6 precisely

[amber spruce]

hey so i want to store the current scene and then load it later how would i do this i tried just saving it as a Scene variable it doesnt seem to work though

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "store the current scene"?

[scarlet skiff]

i want random floats but with exactly 0.1 in between

[amber spruce]

Scene currentScene = SceneManager.GetActiveScene();

[wintry quarry]

but what do you mean by this

just the name of it?

Or the actual state of the scene?

[swift elbow]

do you mean save data?

[wintry quarry]

with all the objects as they are

[amber spruce]

is this possible?

[wintry quarry]

You have to pick exactly which data you want to save and save it

you can't just take a snapshot

[amber spruce]

i meant more just the scene name and stuff

so i can go back to that scene

[wintry quarry]

currentScene.name

or currentScene.buildIndex

[amber spruce]

SceneManager.LoadScene(saveObject.currentScene.name);

so this?

[wintry quarry]

you would need to do something like

int tenths = Random.Range(40, 71);
float gravityScale = tenths * 0.1f;```

[wintry quarry]

I mean just save the name

saveObject.sceneName

don't save the Scene object it's not particularly useful to you

[wanton canyon]

I think this is what you said, right? But no matter what values (1f, -1f, -2f, 2f ,3f) it seems to still be on its side or upside down 😅

[amber spruce]

so save a string variable instead of a Scene variable

[wintry quarry]

yes

[timber tide]

No, I mean the position. Try adding another unit in the z+

[wanton canyon]

ah crap, sorry read that wrong

[timber tide]

Im feeling like it's just too close to the pivot and getting a zero direction

I would try to get it working without offset the pos on the x or y first

[wanton canyon]

got it, gotta brb rq then will update

[timber tide]

If you want it closer to the camera, you may want to make an empty gameobject behind the camera to look at

[sinful helm]

Could anyone help me with my code, the floats and all show up, it just wont work, and i dont know which parts not working

[hexed terrace]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[swift elbow]

i have just fixed it 🧠

[sinful helm]

How do I send a long strain of code?

[swift elbow]

!code

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[sinful helm]

https://hatebin.com/slmeqlrqdn

like that?

[hexed terrace]

now explain the issue

[sinful helm]

The character wont jump, I am not getting an error from unity, and i dont know the language well enough to be able to spot whats wrong, it might be line 15

never mind sorry, as i posted it i saw that i hadnt put the true value in

[hexed terrace]

This is pointless btw

if (grounded) {} 
else if (!grounded) {}

You can just do

if (grounded) {}
else {}

Because if grounded is false, then it won't pass the first condition, so it's else will.. as a bool can only be true or false

[sinful helm]

Thank you, I'll change that now

[swift elbow]

you have a func to set readyToJump to true but not one to set it to false? 😅

[halcyon geyser]

if(!grounded) { return; }

[swift elbow]

you should consider just calling a func that changes the bools value to its opposite by using readyToJump != readyToJump

this will let you be much more organized

[hexed terrace]

yes, this, if you don't need anything further after the if statement

[sinful helm]

Thank you

[wanton canyon]

@timber tide OK yeah it is further from the player now

[stuck palm]

what happens if i start a coroutine on a gameobject then start the same coroutien again?

[frosty hound]

It runs two of them

[willow scroll]

The same as calling the same method multiple times

[stuck palm]

is it not possible to like stop the preexisting one and start a new one?

[willow scroll]

It's possible if you have a reference

[frosty hound]

Yes, that's what StopCoroutine is for

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StopCoroutine.html

[stuck palm]

thanks will looks into this

[timber tide]

try getting it to rotate nicely without the x/y offset

could always comment out lookrotation and apply the child and offset, go back to scene, and spin it on the y to see if it's correct

[signal dew]

Hi i wanted to find a tutorial for a game mechanic like the one described in the screenshot for my cooking game but i am just not able to find one. Maybe someone here can find one or at least knows the name of that type of mechanic.

[willow scroll]

Could you send the Stack Overflow link?

[swift elbow]

so this is similar to the timing arcade game?

[signal dew]

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/185819/is-there-a-name-for-this-kind-of-mini-game-cursor-moves-on-a-bar-press-key-in?answertab=modifieddesc#tab-top

[swift elbow]

cant remember what its called but a line follows a circle and you have to click a button before the moving line goes past your goal

[signal dew]

yes exactly!

[swift elbow]

i really cant remember what the game is called and i cant find it 🤷‍♂️

[dusky coral]

I am not able to install unity editor I am getting error how to solve it

Editor application

Install failed: Validation Failed

[swift elbow]

not a coding question but !install

[eternal falcon]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[hexed terrace]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/stop-the-lock-52112

Went through 6.5 pages on the asset store to find it, because I couldn't remember the name

[dusky coral]

getting this error i have around 200gb space in my drive

[slender nymph]

not a code question. but go through the checklist below 👇 !install

[eternal falcon]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[wanton canyon]

It feels like part of the issue is if I offset the rotation, it will, but depending on how much it decided to be rotated already Like I grab the slime from the side and it's rotated a little. I grab it looking down and it's upside down instead of sideways. Anyway building and testing commenting out lookrotation with a manual rotation offset

[swift elbow]

i love deja vu

[wanton canyon]

yeah it is still rotating when I pick it up... ahhhhhhhhhh

[signal dew]

Thank you so much i could fine a tutorial with that info <3

[slender nymph]

you don't change it. you can AddListener via code to subscribe the one you want subscribed and you can RemoveListener to remove subscribed methods (this cannot remove persistent listeners)

lol they deleted it as i answered

[tender stag]

i just realised i can toggle it with a bool anyway

[tender stag]

lmao sorry man

[tender stag]

thanks tho

[tired spear]

can anyone help me with an error i have?

[slender nymph]

https://dontasktoask.com

[swift crag]

perhaps if you share it (:

[tired spear]

ok can anyone help whit this error im very new to this so this is my error: Library\PackageCache\com.unity.ai.navigation@1.1.5\Editor\NavMeshAssetManager.cs(172,65): error CS1061: 'NavMeshSurface' does not contain a definition for 'IsPartOfPrefab' and no accessible extension method 'IsPartOfPrefab' accepting a first argument of type 'NavMeshSurface' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[slender nymph]

make sure your packages are up to date, and if the issue persists after updating then close the project, delete the Library folder from within your project (only that folder and its contents) then open unity again and it will regenerate the cache

[tired spear]

ok thanks

[edgy prism]

Just ran into this funny error I asumme just do what it says on the tin but im curious why its happening in the first place

[polar acorn]

Because you're trying to destroy a file

Probably a prefab

[edgy prism]

Ah yes I am, Is that bad practice?

[polar acorn]

Well, presumably you don't want to delete the file off your computer forever, so yes

[swift crag]

it's probably not what you meant to do, no

[wanton canyon]

figured it out!!! it was beacuse I started this using LookAt I believe. I just deleted everything and then set it locally manually. @timber tide in case you wanted to know

[edgy prism]

Oh I think im stupid that means im trying to destroy the prefab not the instantiated object?

[polar acorn]

An instantiated object is not a prefab. A prefab is a file on disk that you can copy to put into the scene. The copy is no longer a prefab

If you want to destroy the copy, you would need to call destroy on that, not the prefab it was copied from

[edgy prism]

Yeah this is what i've done, how stupid of me. Thank god unity has some built in protection for that, Im glad I checked here first cause I was just gonna do DestroyImmediate

[stuck palm]

Quaternion cameraTargetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 180f, 0f);
            cameraContainer.transform.rotation = cameraTargetRotation;

Quaternion cameraTargetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, 0f);
            cameraContainer.transform.rotation = cameraTargetRotation;

why does 180f translate to y = -180 and 0f translate to y = 180f?

[slender nymph]

eulerAngles for a quaternion are interpreted at the time they are accessed. there are any number of values that can express the same rotation, do not rely on specific values to be displayed/returned

[stuck palm]

how can i get specific values to be returned?

[swift crag]

you don't

The editor does store euler angles strictly for the purpose of letting you type something like 3600 into the rotation field, but those aren't actually used by the Transform component

When you construct a quaternion out of euler angles, that quaternion has no memory of the euler angles you used

[swift crag]

I wouldn't expect the second example to give you [0, 180, 0] unless this thing is parented to another object, though

[eternal needle]

If you're relying on specific euler angles, then keep track of the euler angles yourself. The conversion of euler to quaternion to euler will always eventually give you different values that lead to the same rotation

[swift crag]

(you're setting world-space rotations, and the inspector shows local-space rotations, so having a parent matters here)

[stuck palm]

it is parented to another object yes

im trying to get a camera to always face one way when the character faces another way

[swift crag]

this code makes the camera face the -Z direction, then the +Z direction

a transform with Quaternion.identity for its world-space rotation (which is what Quaternion.Euler(0,0,0) gives you) will face world +Z

[rigid jay]

Hello everyone! I'm new here. So I am starting my first First Person Movement and Camera, is there anyone who could help with that?

I have the camera and Capsule set up already.

[slender nymph]

what help are you looking for? if you are looking for someone to guide you through creating those, then find a tutorial. if you need help with your implementation then show your code and describe the issue you are experiencing with it

[summer stump]

!learn

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[rigid jay]

Thank you!

[timber tide]

Aye nice that works too. If you want to stop your slimes from clipping into the ground now when picked up, youll need to force it to render on top.

Usually you can just use render objects and disable writing to depth

[wanton canyon]

yeah there are a few issues around rendering... their outline disappears when looking at the water as well

[timber tide]

Then switch layers when picking them up

[stuck palm]

is there a way to keep reference to an object afters its been destroyed like a character for example?

public class MatchTrackerData
{
    public Character player1;
    public Character player2;
    public Character player3;
    public Character player4;

    public Character winner;
}

[polar acorn]

If it's been destroyed what are you trying to reference

[stuck palm]

i just want to keep data from it, like KOs and deaths and stuff

from each character

[polar acorn]

Then that data will need to be on something that isn't destroyed

[slender nymph]

then keep just that data, why do you need a reference to the destroyed object?

[stuck palm]

idk cus it feels tedious to have player1Kills and player1Deaths and player2Kills and so on

i thought it would be easier to just keep a copy of the character class

but i forgot when it gets destroyed t he reference is useless

[slender nymph]

well yes, that is a terrible way to do that

you can create a class or struct that contains the data for a single player and pass that around when necessary for each player

[stuck palm]

that works

i'll try that

[raw aspen]

im trying to invoke this unityevent but when i add the scriptable object i get nullreferenceerror. i thought i could call scriptable object public methods like this. what am i doing wrong?

[slender nymph]

you can, the error is likely inside that Raise method

or perhaps somewhere else entirely, you'd have to show the error message

[summer stump]

Just keep in mind, any time you feel like numbering your variables (player1Kills), something is going wrong.

[raw aspen]

the raise method is empty though its just for the listeners to do something off it

when i only have the fence wall setactive false i get no errors

[slender nymph]

so you have nothing at all inside of VoidEventSO.Raise? not even an event invocation in there?

[raw aspen]

sorry youre right here is the code

[slender nymph]

yeah so then something subscribed to that event is what is throwing the NRE

[raw aspen]

ohhh because the object which has the listener is disabled?

[slender nymph]

a disabled object would not throw an exception just because it is disabled. whatever code is running as a result of that event being invoked is throwing the exception

[raw aspen]

tyvm ill look into it

[wintry quarry]

show the full stack trace of the error

[raw aspen]

i see it

[slender nymph]

your error is on line 34 of QuestAnimationManager

[raw aspen]

ty its clear now

[green copper]

if I have the inventorySlot script referenced, can I change the color of the image component? Or do I also need to get the image or gameobject directly?

[cinder crag]

im a bit confused and lsot , how can i get rid of this warning 😭

nvm saw

the problem

mb

[sharp copper]

you can probably just make inventorySlot.gameobject.getComponent<Image>() or something like that

[rich adder]

put reference to Image in Inventory slot script, with a SerializeField

[swift crag]

You should always try to use serialized references instead of a bunch of GetComponent calls

It's fine to create components whose only real job is to be a bag of references

(you'll often wind up adding functionality to them later)

[green copper]

There has to be a more effective way of doing code on inventory slots corresponding to numpad keys, but I cannot think of it

I want the player to be able to tap the button to build the blueprint, and hold it down to self destruct the building

[rich adder]

new input system would probably be less of a pain, aside from initial learning curve

[languid saffron]

My game object won't disable on collision, I've tried multiple methods like disabling the game object with a certain tag on collision.

[rich adder]

need to show code
also make sure run through these steps
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[carmine sierra]

thanks but they told me that already

[languid saffron]

Top is game object disable, bottom is script disable (At least that's what I hope for it to do) both aren't working.

I'm pretty new to unity

[rich adder]

go through the steps I've linked you, you have to Debug the trigger/collision event, outside the tags

[languid spire]

why == tag in one method and CompareTag in the other?

[polar acorn]

Is the function even running? Put a log outside the if

[rich adder]

also not sure what goal of that collision one is...if powerup collides with powerup then destroy the other?

[languid saffron]

oh

[scarlet skiff]

bro how du u freeze x rotation via code? rb component

the docs arent really helping

[rich adder]

constraint

[scarlet skiff]

how do i make it use the 2d one

do i just add (Rigidbody2D)

idk

[final yoke]

hey yall im trying to change a text but the console said i did not refer to it in the editor (even tho i did) i usually solve this issue by refering to a tag in the code editor which works with object but i dnt know ho to apply it to tect any ideas ?

[wintry quarry]

Write the 2D one lol

[rich adder]

there is no rotation on x for RB2D

[scarlet skiff]

its position no roation

i basically dont want it to move "left" or "right"

[rich adder]

well u said rotation

[wintry quarry]

Why'd you say rotation then

[summer stump]

Literally tells you exactly what to write
RigidbodyConstraints2D

[scarlet skiff]

oh my bad

[scarlet skiff]

ah i was trying Rigidbody2DConstraints

lol

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RigidbodyConstraints2D.html

always check the docs

[wintry quarry]

The error message also said the right thing

[rich adder]

does your IDE not do this when you type=

[summer stump]

Be sure to read the errors carefully

That took forever to upload!

[scarlet skiff]

oh dang

alrighty noted

[potent tangle]

What is the best way to design a point and click locomotion?
Nav Mesh?

And if the character needs to walk around objects, should they be a Rigid Body or Character Controller?

[rich adder]

yes navmesh

they even have the example for it inside docs

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ai.navigation@1.1/manual/NavMoveToClickPoint.html (updated link)

[potent tangle]

Brilliant, thank you so much!

[queen adder]

Hello, I'm trying to make a sprite flip using it's rotation with the animation controller, but I'm having some struggle

[honest haven]

Hi im trying to add a particle to the players weapon game object. The code works, but the issue i have is the particle follows the game object, which is correct becuase its a child of weapon. But how can i stop that i just want the particle of the weapon container to be the starting point ```public void MeleeParticleEffect(GameObject effectPrefab)
{
GameObject activeWeapon = FindActiveWeapon(weaponHolder);

    if (effectPrefab != null && activeWeapon != null)
    {
        GameObject effectInstance = Instantiate(effectPrefab, weaponHolder.transform.position, weaponHolder.transform.rotation, weaponHolder.transform);
        effectInstance.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
        Destroy(effectInstance, effectInstance.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().main.duration);
    }
}```

[rich adder]

whats the problem? what are we looking at? whats supposed to happen?

[queen adder]

So basically after it finishes the "flip" animation it returns to the normal animation, but it flips back to the right, is there any way to keep the rotation to the left?

[rich adder]

i would start by not using triggers

keep a bool that tracks your facing direction

like IsFacingRight

or something

[wintry quarry]

simulate the particle system in world space

[queen adder]

I tried using a float that stores the horizontal input, but then it just keeps flipping continously

[rich adder]

well if you did something like
if(xInput > 0) animator.SetBool("IsFacingRight", true)
else if(xInput < 0) animator.SetBool("IsFacingRight", false)

or something

it would not constantly flip

triggers would

[spiral narwhal]

Would a two dimensional array be the preferred way to create a graph in Unity or is there an explicit type for it?
I found https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.graphtools.foundation@0.8/manual/graphview-overview.html
but it seems that is for UI only

[honest haven]

thanks it still has some rotation on it.

[queen adder]

Doesn't even work with bool

[rich adder]

then your transitions are setup all wrong

I would suggest studying up the animator further

[honest haven]

the first part in the video i how i want the particle to work, but when i attack you see that it follows the rotation of the hand. I dont want that

[wintry quarry]

just don't make it a child of the player

[queen adder]

Probably yes, but there aren't much tutorials on animators, and it's just so confusing

[honest haven]

ok if i do that i have to change the y axis of the particle but if i wanted to also use it again on another player that maybe bigger or smaller feels like im hard coding it. i was trying to make it flexiable

[rich adder]

what do you mean, there are so many tutorials on animator lol

its confusing cause its new, look at multiple sources and eventually it looks less scary

[queen adder]

Thanks anyway

[rich adder]

sry but idk what you're looking for, if explain it further will just confuse you and i dont feel like going back n forth to give a crash course on animator

[swift crag]

this is for making editor windows, yes

A two-dimensional list gives you an adjacency list, where each vertex in the graph has a list of vertices that it connects to

a 2D array is closer to an adjacency matrix, which would be a bool[][] that tells you if two vertices have an edge between them

I tend to do adjacency lists. They're particularly good for sparse graphs

if each galaxy only connects to a few other galaxies, then it's very efficiecnt to have each galaxy store its neighbors

[fast glade]

Im creating a mobile shooter and on my right stick i want to rotate and shoot. Everything works so far, but when i shoot, i have to tap the button. How can i repeat my code as long as im holding the button down? Im triggering the Input Action with the Unity "On-Screen Button" script

[wintry quarry]

void Update() {
  if (buttonIsHeldDown) {
    // do stuff
  }
}```

the input system is for handling input not driving game logic.

[winter cedar]

!code

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[fast glade]

Okay, thank you! 🙂

[winter cedar]

So when i try to load up my project it just gives me a this error that i cant fix here's the part of the code to it

            else if (surface.IsPartOfPrefab())
            {
                var prefabStage = PrefabStageUtility.GetPrefabStage(surface.gameObject);
#if UNITY_2020_1_OR_NEWER
                var assetPath = prefabStage.assetPath;
#else
                var assetPath = prefabStage.prefabAssetPath;
#endif
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(assetPath))
                {
                    var prefabDirectoryName = Path.GetDirectoryName(assetPath);
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(prefabDirectoryName))
                        targetPath = prefabDirectoryName;
                }
            }

[languid spire]

Duh, what error? Or are we meant to guess?

[winter cedar]

oh sorry let me send rq

unity.ai.navigation@1.1.5\Editor\NavMeshAssetManager.cs(47,30): error CS1061: 'NavMeshSurface' does not contain a definition for 'IsPartOfPrefab' and no accessible extension method 'IsPartOfPrefab' accepting a first argument of type 'NavMeshSurface' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
there

[languid spire]

So where does this code come from?

[slender nymph]

you shouldn't be attempting to modify unity packages code. make sure all of your packages are up to date and if the issue persists after updating packages then close the editor, delete the library folder from within your project then open the project again so that unity regenerates the package cache

[winter cedar]

i didnt

[winter cedar]

it comes from the NavMeshAssetManager script

[slender nymph]

right but you're posting the code here and asking for help with it as if you intend to attempt to fix it yourself. follow the steps i just gave you to fix it

[winter cedar]

ok

[languid spire]

I can see that but the docs do not mention a IsPartOfPrefab method